If you remember the Zoids craze from the ‘80s, then you might be interested to learn that a new game is releasing in Japan at the end of the month: Zoids Wild: King of Blast.
If your memories don't stretch back that far, Zoids are large mecha-animals which began life as a toy line and then grew into a franchise that includes five anime TV series and a bunch of games, too. While the western fortunes of the series have taken a nosedive since the '80s, the robots managed to maintain their popularity in the Land of the Rising Sun and have appeared on several past Nintendo platforms.
Announced a little under a year ago, this new game from Takara Tomy is based on the latest anime and appears to be an attractive 3D fighter with plenty of electrifying over-the-top moves and colour. It includes some pretty devastating finishers known as ‘Final Blasts’, a Zoid Viewer enabling you to examine your models in exquisite detail and a story mode to underscore the mecha-mayhem. There’s competitive two-player and a legion of Zoids to choose from (we like the look of Death Rex).
The new trailer above goes into substantial detail over its seven minutes. While this is unlikely to get a localisation, importing is an option for any die-hard Zoids fan in the west, as long as you’re willing to miss out on the story (or, of course, you speak Japanese).
Have you played any games in the illustrious Zoids series? Like the look of this one? Get your Zoid on in the comments.
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Wonder if they will have Physical and Physical Collector's Edition.
@SwitchForce Yes i bought the physical.
@Fuz Don't need one, it's a fighting game. I ordered a japanese version.
@YANDMAN How playable is it if you can't read Japanese?
I had a bunch of Zoids in the 80's. I'm not sure I'd describe it as a "craze." They seemed very much in the shadow of G.I. Joe, the Transformers and Go Bots. But my parents seemed to not want us to have toys tied to TV shows or movies for some reason and I liked dinosaurs (they seemed to be much more focused on dinosaurs back then), so Zoids is what I got.
Very. Download the demo and see for yourself. It's a simple game, somewhat like Poken Fighters.
@TheFox *0's Zoids were like an underdog toy. I had a few, most didn;t have any.
I used to like Zoids: The battle begins back in the 8 bit days, in fact I think I'll go play it on the C64 mini today.
Lol now to go off and cry just like no English zoids saga Ds arcadia
I saw Zoids on Cartoon Network in the 90s. It was an 80s series?
AAAAAA YES YES YES YES YES YES YES!!!!!!
PLEASE play well with an arcade stick!!!!
I was pretty obsessed with these as a kid. I had a spider one and a raptor. Used to drool all over the huge mammoth and tyrannosaurus in the shop.
@Mando44646 I remember buying Zoids as far back as 1984. But I had no idea there was a Zoids TV show until many years later. I believe the deal was that a show went along with their initial launch in Japan, but with anime (or any Japanese entertainment other than video games) virtually nonexistent in America at the time, the show didn't air here. They only sold the toys.
The only Zoids anime I remember watching was on Toonami back in the early 00's. I remember the mecha themselves were CG, so it probably wasn't the 80's series.
I think it had more of a tournament theme, but instead of a centralized tournament site, the cast traveled the world & when they ran into an opponent a (robotic) referee would descend (from orbit?) and officiate the match. I think the villains were somehow able to intercept the referee bots and would replace them with their own that would let them either ignore the rules, or impose dirty rulesets that would give them the advantage.
Anyhow, I remember liking it.
@RR529 That's Zoids New Century. I loved it too.
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